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LATEST NEWS.
One pays Later News by the w. II.
DimOnd.

We have nine days later advices from
the Coast by the W. H. Dimopd, which
arrived in port yesterday. The intelli-
gence is interesting. Following are the
| leading points:
LONDON, March 29th.-Mrs. James
Brown Potter's appearance at the Hay
market Theater this evening brought out
| a distinguished and fashionable audience.
| Great interest has been taken in her first
/ professional appearance upon the stage,
| and great curiosity has been felt concern
! ing the result of her venture. 1t can be
! said at the outset that she neither made a
! brilliant success nor a failure. She went
( through her part without embarrassment
| from the first, but it cannot be said that
any part of her performance entities
| her to high rank as professional actress.
This was the general judgment of the
audience as testified by their manner of
approval 1t was considered a fairly good
| performance, and was politely applauded
at two different times when the Prince of
Wales led and once when he did not. At
the close she was applauded and slightly
cheered, but there was no marked APP
prevail though the interest was main
tanned throughout the play and none left
the theater until the performance was
over. The company supporting Mrs Pot
| ter was a very good one. Several mem
bers of the company secured much at
tention and approval as did Mrs. Potter
in he part.
A curiOt- contretemps took place during
the Queens reception at Birmingham. Mr..
Chamberlain, anxious to welcome his
neighboTing pOtentate to his good city,
Birmingham, stretched forth his hand to
shake that of Her Majesty. The Sover-
eign, however, not possibly being aware
that she was in the presence OF a brother
monarch and within his domains, did not
respond to his condescending cordiality,
and managed to get out OF the difficulty by
arranging a convenient button on one of
her gloves.
The Queen will hold two drawing rooms
at Buckingham Palace in May. 1t is proba-
bic that both of these functions will take
place during the second week of that
month, the dates now mentioned being
Wednesday, the 18th, and Friday, the
18th.
The Prince of Wales will hold a levee at
st. James Palace towards the end of next
month, probably on Monday April 25th.
That sensible woman, Queen Elizabeth
of Roumania, has just managed to pro-
cure an opportunity of hearing the plain
and wholesome truth about herself, after
fashion usually denied to royalties by the
cringing courtiers who surround them
WI Of
time to music, was so persistently assured
by her attendants that her voice was more
than equal to that of any prima donna
that she began to consider whether she
was justified in concealing such talent in
napkin, but before displaying her gifts
coram pOpulo she wisely resolved to OBJ
tain an unbiased opinion. This she got
straight from the eminent Professor Du-
mancis in Bucharest, to whom she went
incognito, and who, after trying her pow
ers, informed her bluntly that she had
perhaps just sufficient voice to qualify her
for chorus girl in an operetta, to which,
however, her face and figure were unfor-
tunately not adopted
The Prince of Wales has sent portrait
of himself to the Boston Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company, of which
he was elected an honorary member when |
he was in America in 1860.
The Emperor Williams physicians are
anxious TO get him away from Berlin as
soon as possible, and it is expected that he
will remove to Weisbaden for three weeks
about. April 18th The Empress is then
going to Baden Baden for a month, and
she will not return to Berlin before No
vember
Mr.. GIaiStOne's Speech on the COer-
ciOm Bill.
LONDON, March 29th.-In the Commons
to-day Gladstone resumed the debate on
the Irish criminal law amendment. He
said that in an issue SO grave proposals as
those now put forth by the Government
required ample time for consideration He
found himself bound to support Parnell's
because the ground on which
Balfour based the Governments case was
absolutely insufficient and unsatisfactory.
The Governments bill, instead of being a
cure for Irish ills, or even a palliative, was
1 measure that would aggravate deep
seated disorders. with this coercion
dill, y exclaimed Gladstone, 1.-the prospect
IF Cancellation vanishes into the air The
Government intended to exclude the Land
dill, which was the main recommendation
If the commission, which just completed
IN exhaustive investigation of the Irish
rouble. Nothing remains but the figure of
coercion, bald and gaunt, alas too familiar
The Right Honorable Chief Secretary for
Ireland has attempted to excuse the pro-
'osals on the ground that crime in Ireland
Turing the last three years has increased,
ut he followed the usual course in refrain
ng from giving the House official informa-
ion proving his allegations Take the in
lance given of threatening letters In
$50, 432 such letters were received, and in
1856 but IS more were received. That
ardly furnished ground for asking Par
ament to assent to an extreme measure I
coercion. The other classes of crime {
in 1885 to SD, and in C
3S6 to SIT. This increase is de-
,ribed as the main reason for the
xtreme demands of the Government.
Balfour has further private informa-
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